Lazy, lazy, lazy

I ran across the following game the other day, one that I played last year, that I had not presented on this blog.

No, it is not because I lost the game that it had slipped my mind. It is because how I won the game.

perrypawnpusher - maxmi
blitz, FICS, 2010

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+

4...Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ Kf8

7.Qxe5 d6 8.Qg3

In an earlier game my opponent faced 8.Qf4+ Nf6 9.d3 Kg8 10.Be3 Bxe3 11.Qxe3 Bd7 12.Nd2 b5 13.d4 Qf8 14.0-0-0 Re8 15.f3 d5 16.e5 Nh5 17.Qb3 c6 18.Qa3 Ra8 19.Rhf1 Nf4 20.Rf2 Be8 21.h3 Bg6 22.Qa6 h5 23.Qxc6 Rc8 24.Qxd5+ Kh7 25.Qxb5 Qf5 26.Ne4 Qd7 27.Qxd7 Black resigned, piratebopper - maxmi, FICS, 2010.

8...Nf6 9.d3 Nh5

Played in a trio of internet games by belgje a number of years ago -- destinyx - belgje, GameKnot.com, 2004 (1-0, 80); obviously - belgje, GameKnot.com, 2004 (0-1, 19); and raes - belgje, GameKnot.com, 2004 (0-1,49) – and more recently against a Jerome Gambit Gemeinde member, Petasluk - brittaundvolker, blitz, FICS, 2009 (1-0, 32).

10.Qf3+ Ke8

Reflex.

11.Qxh5+ g6 12.Qg5

Two pawns up, my brain dropped into L for Lazy: Why think when you can just push pieces? This is a habit that has hurt me in the past, so it is actually painful to see it be successful in this game.

12...Qxg5 13.Bxg5 Rf8 14.0-0 h6

This does not help, giving a free pawn. From now on I play almost on auto-pilot.

15.Bxh6 Rf7 16.Nc3 c6 17.Be3 a5 18.Bxc5 dxc5

19.f4 b5 20.Rae1 b4 21.Nd1 Bd7 22.Ne3 Ke7 23.Nc4 a4 24.Ne5 Rh7 25.Nxd7 Kxd7

Anyone still awake out there?

26.f5 gxf5 27.Rxf5 Rah8 28.h3 Kd6 29.Ref1 c4 30.d4 Re7 31.Rf6+ Kd7 32.Rf7 Rh4 33.Rxe7+ Kxe7 34.Re1 Kd6

35.c3 c5 36.dxc5+ Kxc5 37.e5 Kd5 38.cxb4 Re4

Unwittingly or wittingly bringing the game to a close.

39.Rxe4 Kxe4 40.e6 Ke5 41.e7 Ke6 42.e8Q+ Black resigned